Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain WorldIn this book Nick Couldry, media and cultural theorist from the London School of Economics, asks what are the priorities for media and cultural research today - at a time of the intensified mediation of all fields of social life, threats to democratic legitimacy, and serious instability on the global political stage. The book calls for a "decentered" media research that rejects easy assumptions about media's role in holding societies together and instead looks more critically at the difference media make on the ground to the material conditions of our lives. In what detailed ways do media transform knowledge and agency in daily life? How do media contribute to the culture of democratic politics? And, most difficult of all, how can we live, ethically, with and through media? Couldry's previous work is well known for its breadth, ranging across media sociology, media theory and cultural theory. Here he draws also on political theory and ethics to develop a tightly-argued account of how media and cultural research must now reorient itself if it is to remain relevant and critical. Nick Couldry is Reader in Media, Communications and Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author or editor of five books including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), The Place of Media Power (Routledge 2000) and (coedited with James Curran) Contesting Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield 2003). |
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... practice research aims to be as open as possible in analyzing what practices are out there , which in turn depends on how people understand what actions constitute a distinct practice — a complex question because actions are linked to a ...
... practice research aims to be as open as possible in analyzing what practices are out there , which in turn depends on how people understand what actions constitute a distinct practice — a complex question because actions are linked to a ...
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... practice that is not itself “ about ” media : what practice this is depends on who we are describing and the context of description . Watching a football game on television might for one person be best analyzed as part of an intensely ...
... practice that is not itself “ about ” media : what practice this is depends on who we are describing and the context of description . Watching a football game on television might for one person be best analyzed as part of an intensely ...
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... practice , but there are many other areas worth investigating ) . There is also the larger question of how media ... practices , however , raises a specific question : do media practices 44 Chapter 3.
... practice , but there are many other areas worth investigating ) . There is also the larger question of how media ... practices , however , raises a specific question : do media practices 44 Chapter 3.
Contents
Social Order | 11 |
Theorizing Media as Practice | 33 |
The Promise of Cultural Studies | 51 |
Copyright | |
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